Sorry to hear about the carafe on your Clarity - I am looking through my collection to see what is close. Menwhile, here below is a link to a 17 page thread about the Bonavita BV-1800 - the short version: it rocks.

I bought my coffee loving Son-in-Law a Bonavita for Christmas. They love it. They wanted something to use when company came over. He had a lot of questions and called their service line to ask them and he said they answered all he asked and more, they knew their product.

Personally, I'm aiming at the Brazen. I like the idea, a lot. I hope sometime, somewhere, I can see a demo. It might be a bit more than some people want to play with in a drip coffee maker.

I saw another shower head electric somewhere, I forget where it was, look a bit more like the Brazen than the others I've seen but looked cheaply made.

anyone out there with one of these machines... have you measured the brewing temps to see if they really brew at 200`F(+/-5)?? do they require any modifications? if so, what??I would love to hear some testimonials...thanks in advanceralph

anyone out there with one of these machines... have you measured the brewing temps to see if they really brew at 200`F(+/-5)?? do they require any modifications? if so, what??I would love to hear some testimonials...thanks in advanceralph

The Bonavita, Technivorm, and Bodum are all great options. The upcoming Brazen appears to have the best feature set. It gives you much of the control that makes manual brewing so appealing, but does it automatically and with a large batch size. I do not own a drip machine, but have been shopping for one over the last month, as I sometimes struggle to keep up with the the coffee needs when we have a large group visiting. I can only make so many Chemex pots in a row!

Not sure there is any consensus at all. The brazen doesn't exist outside of this forum so a conservative "too early to tell" is all I ever would give something till production is out there to try and buy. The TV is nice, but it has some flimsy components - coffee is good though. The Bonavita is built better than the Clarity - I have working versions of both to compare - no shower head mod needed either compared to the Clarity. Bunn makes some nice $100 or less brewers - check out reviews here for the Bunn NHBX-B and PhaseBrew for example. I have the Bunn NHBX-B and find it very worthy of consideration at any budget.

I did get a warm endorsement for the Zojirushi from one vendor - my tea merchant sells them but he also thinks coffee is "muddy water" and will not drink the stuff...

I chew coffee beans with my teeth while gargling with 195 F water to enjoy coffee. What is this "coffee brewing" device you speak of?

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